Weekly Overview SK

Date: 13.1.15

Happy New Year and welcome back to school! We hope that you all had a wonderful holiday. Please let your child brings in a photo/an item from
his/her holiday to school to talk about.
SK Team would like to Welcome Ms Kerri the teacher of SK Beetles Class.
This week we will be inquiring into our holiday experiences. We will also brainstorm about small creatures/animals. If you have any related books, toys and/or
posters about this unit that we could borrow, please send them to school. Thanks
Please be informed that School Photographs will be taken on Tuesday 20 January. More details about this will be send to you closer to the date.
Caring, Principled and Inquirer
Learner Profile Focus
Appreciation, Respect and Curiosity
PYP attitudes

Personal, Social, Health &

Emotional

Language

Maths

U.O.I/ Art & Craft

Computers

P.E.

Continue developing independence at the beginning and end of each day finding their names and hanging them up,
putting water bottle and diary folders in the correct place
Developing independence at lunchtime and taking responsibility for eating their lunch and packing it away.
Focus on being polite saying please, thank you, may I and remembering not interrupt when someone is speaking
Speaking and Listening: talking about holiday experiences
Phonics: review the letter sounds learnt
Reading/ Books: The Very Busy Spider, Are you a Ladybird?
Pre-writing skills: writing letters, drawing pictures
Songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieo0LPYdUfQ (Letter songs)
Number: review and practise writing number formations 1-10
Shapes and Positional words: drawing shapes while following the instructions that the teacher dictates using positional
words e.g. on, between, next to, beside, behind, above.
Counting video/song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsDanlM8_3c&noredirect=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uuh3zG21ts&noredirect=1
Children share their holiday experiences in front of the class. We will also find out what are small creatures in our
environment and will decorate our UOI wall by adding things in the environment where we could find small creatures/animals.
Children will be learning how to draw their favourite animal using a step by step process of drawing and then decide in which
habitat their animal would live.
Starfall in the Learning to read section www.starfall.com. Enjoy playing with the letter games.
http://www.poissonrouge.com/games.php (Poisson Rouge) enjoy playing and discovering.
You can watch youtube videos to support learning. Please look at the following link to sing along with communication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipdkp7TyIAI&noredirect=1 (Habitat song)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL194B3EEF372E216C (Small Animal songs)
Ms Kerri (Beetles class)Tuesday and Thursday
Ms Julie (Dragonflies class) Tuesday and Thursday
dont forget to send in sports shoes

Swimming
VLC
Music
Library

Ms Kerri - Monday 10:00-10.45 helpers please meet at pool 10:00am

Ms Julie Monday 10.45-11.30 helpers please meet at pool 10.45am
Beetles- Monday and Thursday/Dragonflies Monday and Friday
Tuesday and Thursday
Ms Kerri-Wednesday/Ms Julie - Monday (dont forget the library bag)
Please be aware that some classes may change due to students interest and focus.
If you have any questions, please drop us a note in the diary or come in any time to visit us in the classroom.
Kind regards The SK team